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Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™: Volume 1: Core Technologies, 2nd Edition
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Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™: Volume 1: Core Technologies, 2nd Edition

by Marty Hall, Larry Brown
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
14h 14m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 9. Session Tracking

Topics in This Chapter

  • Implementing session tracking from scratch

  • Using basic session tracking

  • Understanding the session-tracking API

  • Differentiating between server and browser sessions

  • Encoding URLs

  • Storing immutable objects vs. storing mutable objects

  • Tracking user access counts

  • Accumulating user purchases

  • Implementing a shopping cart

  • Building an online store

This chapter introduces the servlet session-tracking API, which keeps track of user-specific data as visitors move around your site.

The Need for Session Tracking

HTTP is a “stateless” protocol: each time a client retrieves a Web page, the client opens a separate connection to the Web server and the server does not automatically maintain contextual information about the client. ...

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